Very nice of you to offer to help, let's see... > Talk to Alan Horkan about prettying up the icons for the shapes he's > making. That's the only graphics stuff I can think of right now.
The only existing icons i have made any effort to make as pretty as the ones i added (my Assorted Sheet) are the MSE icons and i did a half assed job of adding transparency to them. While i am relectant to suggest anyone besides me try to do this (i am ridiculously meticulous and spent the last 2 hours drawing icons pixel by pixel) but you might consider adding transparency to just about every icon in Dia and making the grey lines into clear black lines. But time would be far better spent by a programmer making the exporter a little smarter about PNG files and transparency, or geting the Dia exporter to export to all of the raster formats supported by the Gimp or something else. If you have any coding ability at all there are lots of little things i could suggest. If you would rather make shapes and mess about with XML like i am doing there are plenty of time consuming and or exceedingly tedious things i could suggest. You might also consider going through just about every shape file in Dia and making sure that the colours are set to none background foreground There is a problem in Dia, some of the shapes created do not allow the user to override their colours, but again a bit of programming would be a far better way to spend your time. Tell me more about what you are intersted in and what skills you have and i will try and suggest less pedantic stuff that i was probably going to do myself anyway. You mentioned you knew about Databases so perhaps you would play around with TediaSql. I would love to see a simple plugin for Dia that basically gave a graphical frontend to a glorified version of exec() so that users like me could make use of some of the excellent add on scripts in an easy click and drool way. Graphics, oh yeah, i think there was some talk of having some really nice examples to ship with Dia or put on the website. If graphics are your thing that would probably be a really good thing to do. Ideas, i got lots of them. Bugzilla is full of things you might be able to tackle. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
